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So the Gov't will need to increase PCR testing capacity, no end. Other countries want PCR too (not LFT). Ncyt can say other customers come first, until NHS dispute resolved. UK Gov't will have to back down on the dispute (IMO).
They are not sure about the severity of Omicron, more deadly or not than the current dominant strain Delta. Time needed to work that out.
Being more transmissible and being more dominant than Delta would, to my mind, push up the number of 'Covid' infections.
So more people self-isolating (due to track & trace), so bad news for the economy.
High transmissability is not good for the economy.....
28.11.21
WHO is urging countries to take key steps to enhance efforts to track the Omicron variant, including ensuring their PCR testing equipment can detect it, increasing their sampling and sequencing of COVID-19 test samples by at least double to 150 samples a week from the current average of 75, and review past sequencing samples for potential signs of Omicron.
Https://reliefweb.int/report/world/who-stands-african-nations-and-calls-borders-remain-open
Two quarantined travellers in Hong Kong who have tested positive for the variant were vaccinated with the Pfizer jab, according to news reports. One individual had travelled from South Africa, while the other was infected during hotel quarantine.
Https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-w
Sequencing needed ...
Pea**** said the South African health ministry and its scientists "are to be applauded in their response, their science, and in sounding the alarm to the world."
She added that the development shows how important it is to have excellent sequencing capabilities and to share expertise with others
Https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/26/africa/new-covid-variant-discovered-south-africa-b11529-intl/index.html
Today: Belgium recorded a case of the new variant in a woman who had recently travelled from Egypt via Turkey.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/26/new-covid-variant-may-pose-substantial-health-risk-sajid-javid
more about B.1.1.529:
The B.1.1.529 variant has 32 mutations in the spike protein, which is why some scientists are concerned the mutations may drive further waves of disease by evading the body’s defences.
6% fall today seems overdone
SOFCs still the way forward
e.g.
Https://www.greenbiz.com/report/role-solid-oxide-technology-hydrogen-economy-primer
sector interest:
Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/uber-eats-cannabis-canada-order-b1962882.html
note about Sareum
Https://www.edisongroup.com/publication/sdc-1801s-clinical-plan-modified/30232
The future has to look bright for SOFCs and hydrogen while uncertainty continues over gas supplies (till January?)
Https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-yamal-gas-flows-into-germany-remain-eastbound-again-3nd-day-2021-11-08/
useful graph at the foot of this article
Https://www.thelocal.it/20211118/explained-will-italy-bring-in-a-covid-lockdown-for-the-unvaccinated/
To think it was a £1/share in Feb 2021...
This new distribution deal is better than anything back then.
Boris does a U-turn on his pledge to get the high-speed rail link to Leeds, and the Trans-Pennine one too.
What a shambles his government is.
The Tory MP sleaze, the Covid contracts to Tory mates and now the rail link.
He badly needs new tech to up his standings ...
Most people concluding that their gas bill could be 3 times what it was 3 years ago.
The competitiveness of hydrogen compared to gas must be altogether much better now IMO
Many hydrogen projects, that were half-mothballed, will now start.
As gas is so expensive.
And those chaps in Belarus want to limit gas exports to Europe even more.